A devotee traveled for 40 days to visit God. He used to fast during the day and stay up at night. Due to I'tikaaf, he was completely cut off from God's creation and all his time was spent in sighing and mourning.
On the 36th night this devotee heard a voice: 6 pm,
Go to a copper shop in the copper market and find your purpose.
Abid arrives ahead of schedule and starts looking for the copper shop in the market streets, he says. "I saw an old woman holding a copper cauldron and showing it to every copper maker."
She wanted to sell it. She weighed the copper maker she showed to the pot and said she would get 4 riyals. The old woman said she would sell it for 6 riyals. No copper maker was willing to give her more than 4 riyals.
At last the old woman came to a copper maker. The copper maker was busy with her work.
The old woman said: I have brought this vessel for sale and I will sell it for 6 riyals, will you pay 6 riyals?
The copper maker asked why only 6 riyals? Expressing her heart, the old woman said: My son is ill, Hakim has written a prescription for him which costs 6 riyals.
The copper maker took the cauldron and said: Mother, this cauldron is very good and precious. If you want to sell, I will buy it for 25 riyals !!
The old woman said: Are you making fun of me? !!! He said no, I will really pay 25 riyals - he took the pot and said
Put 25 riyals in the hand of an old woman !!! The old woman was very surprised and hurried to her house praying.
Abid says, "I was watching the whole affair. When the old woman left, I said to the copper shop owner:
Uncle, don't you think you can do business? !! Almost all the people in the market weighed the copper pot and no one valued it more than 4 riyals. And you bought it for 25 riyals ...
The old copper maker said:
I didn't buy the utensils, I paid her to buy her baby prescription, I paid her to take care of her sick baby for a week, I paid her to sell the rest of the household items. Turn not -
Abid says I kept thinking and looking at it ... there was an unseen voice in me
"No one can get the privilege of visiting me by killing. Hold the pits and hold the hand of the poor. We will come to you on our own." May Allah Almighty grant us the ability to act with understanding and sincerity ... and do good deeds from all around us ...